m_fayer

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by m_fayer 11y ago
The idea that limiting human behavior is a scary concept makes no sense to me. We limit human behavior all the time because resources are finite and because the immediate interests of the individual may be detrimental to wider society. It&#
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I've also had a great experience with awesomium which imo has a more powerful api than cefsharp, I'm curious why they chose it over awesomium.
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I've worked on large and complex apps with MVVM in WPF and on the web with Angular, and have not regretted using MVVM for a second. Databinding is indeed a leaky abstraction, but at the same time it's a very powerful one. I'm
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Reactive Extensions and ReactiveUI.
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by m_fayer 11y ago
This is neither science nor pseudo-science, I'm not claiming any degree of rigor. It's nothing more than my own thoughts and observations, and as mentioned downthread, I don't think the research exists to prove or disprove wh
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by m_fayer 11y ago
Absolutely. I'd also add that your face is a reflection of your personality and average emotional temperature. Your "neutral expression" will, over many years of muscle memory and habit, settle into some particular arrangemen
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I have to say though that New Paltz and its environs are a place whose loveliness far outweigh the dickish-cop and puking-frat-boy problems. I think if you're white and don't look student-age, you'll mostly be left alone. If
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by m_fayer 11y ago
A "spidey sense" is not a legal basis for anything, so indulging such a sense implicitly involves some degree of fabrication of "objective" causes. Be that as it may, the "spidey sense" excuse could and should
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I went to university at New Paltz, NY, which is a college town with a reputation for parties, though nothing horrific. Around the town, there were huge numbers of police (especially compared to the small population of the town) all seemingl
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by m_fayer 11y ago
>Giving Mullahs access to create nuclear weapons. Taking their word for it that they won't. The whole point of the deal is to NOT LET THEM create nuclear weapons. No one is taking anyone's word, there is a verification regime t
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I'm pretty happy with the approach of common x-plat core and then bindings to the native UI framework (Cocoa, WPF, etc.) on each platform. I'll bite the bullet of rewriting the UI layer for each platform if it means an absolutely
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by m_fayer 11y ago
You absolutely can still use databinding without using forms! Take a look at mvvmcross or reactiveui, both very powerful.
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by m_fayer 11y ago
There's absolutely nothing wrong with saying something like "there are now several projects/products that aim to alleviate this problem, such as ProjectA and ProjectB." Also f.lux is freeware. These apps are also a lot m
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by m_fayer 11y ago
Now non-fluxed monitors at night somehow feel rude to me. Like someone waving a flashlight in my face.
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by m_fayer 11y ago
I'm surprised the article mentions the blue light problem and devices but does not talk about flux, it's a little app that shifts the color temperature of your display to match what you're supposed to see at your location giv
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by m_fayer 11y ago
There is no natural law that says this. People, organizations, and governments can very much accumulate debt that they cannot repay, it happens all the time. You can't squeeze blood from a stone, but you can enslave a person or throw t
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by m_fayer 11y ago
The downside of xamarin is slightly unstable tooling, the occasional regression, and headaches associated with using native oss libs, though it is very much possible. And of course price. On the other hand, native-equivalent performance is
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by m_fayer 11y ago
One lesson I've learned, and that's hidden in this post, is to never use language like "free forever." It feels awesome and badass to write something like that, but I think for most of us it's hubris, we can't
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by m_fayer 11y ago
There have been quite a few of these "stages of development expertise" articles and in most of them, including this one, I get the distinct impression that the "what is a senior dev" section consists mostly of humblebrag
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Because they're powerful and can make excellent allies if they so choose.
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by m_fayer 11y ago
The one album can be seen as her token of protest without going as far as shunning the service as a whole. So, this is probably a carefully calibrated objection, and we're not privy to the details of why she did it this way and not som
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by m_fayer 11y ago
The "magic" nature of databinding seems unavoidable. Either it's driven by reflection and then it's more or less understandable but the performance suffers. Or, the bindings can be generated through some kind of bytecode
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by m_fayer 11y ago
Looks really promising, thanks for the hint. It's on my to-evaluate list along with: http://robobinding.github.io/RoboBinding/ Also, if you're open to Xamarin, there's a great library there called MvvmCr
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by m_fayer 11y ago
After a quick skim this seems great, but just one piece of a much bigger puzzle. Android activities, regardless of whether the view is constructed declaratively or in code, seem to always become an untestable mess that does way too much. At